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Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserves

Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserves

66,000 stairs. The equivalent of over 35 runs up the Empire State Building. Just short of 9 vertical miles. All in one 24 hour period.

On August 16th 2006, Jim Campbell, Indianapolis (Pike Township) firefighter/hot sauce maker/chile pepper farmer, will attempt to break the worlds’ record by exceeding those totals, all to raise money for several charities that are especially close to him. Jim Campbell is a well respected member of the chilehead community and to honor him, Blair & CaJohn have created these special reserves.

Each of these reserves is numbered 1-5 (#3 Set up for grabs in this auction) and each bottle features signatures from both Blair & CaJohn! Each collector’s bottle is sealed using a 3 colored wax combination never before used on any reserves from either of these two illustrious hot sauce manufacturers.

Each bottle is signed by Blair & CaJohn and numbered (1-5). This auction is for the #3 Set.

“Q: Hey Nick, Just wondered but will the others be up for auction or can they be bought from somewhere else as a set price? Thanks Matt
Jun-25-06
A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”

There was also a question posed to Nick by someone.
Are offline offers open for negotiation. The answer was a resounding NO, there is no price for offline sales. I imagine 10grand would land you a bottle (charity wold be the reason for that 🙂 ) but they are looking for fair honest auctioning of these it sounds like so everyone has an even fair shot. Good for them to not be able to be bought!!! 🙂 of course maybe it was because I only offered a hundred bucks LOL.
Cudos to that, sucks for me 🙂 I made an offer offline chuckle

Wow! These are incredible bottles! It’s amazing to see Blair and Cajohn’s signatures together. Is that a first? Two great companies coming together for a cause is really cool – you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!

Those look intense, probably will never see someones palates though, i was just reading about, The second richest man in the world Warren Buffet, 40 billion + is donating 85% of his monies to the Gates foundation, thats roughly 37 billion bucks, too bad, he doesnt know jim haha. speaking of which, Mr Buffet is only leaving himself with pocketchange, *cough* 3-7 billion *cough* haha

I also think BlaJohns wouldnt attract too much attention for either of them either 🙂
But the whole Poke thing works for me, could you imagine the advertising sponoffs of that name they could have fun with.

I too am Proud to help my old buddy Jim, I know of NO one more deserving of this effort for all of the great things he’s done not only for chileheads, but for all he has touched. A TRULY genuine great guy. I know Blair feels the same way. This is a first as far as I know, and I’m glad to see the response! Thanks to all who are bidding!!!

I have been working so much and doing various other things and haven’t really kept up with the goings on here:( …Blair and CaJohn, excellent job!!! the bottles are great. the 2 of you deserve many kudos for them. Jim, good luck!!

Jim I have been wondering about the stair climb thing.
It states 66,000 in 24 hours. Do you get to go for 3 hours do a bunch then take a break, get a massage type of thing then resume the efforts after consuming nutrients. Or do you have to go non stop?

I have just been wondering, seems a little tough to have to go non stop. Btu with breaks and the sports massage you were talking about might make things a little better for you I hope.

I’m not sure how much time Jim will be able to take off – According to my calculations he must climb 2,750 per hour or 45.833 stairs per minute for 24 hours straight to reach 66,000 stairs in 24 hours.

Yeah its alot, however he did state that he did 30,000 yesterday (or the day before) and i dont think he was at the gym for 10 hours so i am guessing his pace is allot faster than that. However it will be interesting to see what he has to say on that. I have been wondering that (because of the specs you mention especially) for a while now.

My understanding from the Guiness folks (Book, not beer) is that it’s simply “here’s 24 hours, how many can you do?” As such, yes- I do indeed intend to take breaks! I figure I’ve room for 4 hours of breaks and 20 hours on the machine itself. The ‘record pace’, doing the math the same as you did (just under 1/sec), is what I’m using for a ‘resting pace’. Training pace on speed days (2 hours or less like this morning ’cause I have 2 pallets of hot sauce to unload) is over 2/sec. Endurance days are at 1.75/sec (5 hours or more). If anyone is *really* interested, I’ve posted the stats on the StepUp site under the journal entries. The massage guy already has said he’d be happy to help out day of & trust me- I’ll need him 😉

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Wow I wonder what happened 😕

Yeah, seems odd that there would be a problem with the charity aspect of the auction, but there are hundreds of Blairs and CaJohns items sold on Ebay all the time and they dont get pulled, so it does seem to point in that direction… very odd indeed 😐

I had no doubt you’d take care of it sir. Sorry that you *have* to- no good deed goes unpunished as they say. Just found it hard to believe that with all the other stuff that gets auctioned there, they’d have a problem.

Nick, do not put “Charity” in the “title” when you list this again… When I ran the auction for Jim, I only mentioned the word “donated” within my description, but not the title. I ran into the same problem before I listed.

eBay encourages community members to be active in supporting charitable endeavors. Because charitable fundraising is a highly regulated area subject to numerous state and federal laws, eBay has partnered with MissionFish to make charitable listing easy and has created very specific guidelines for when charitable solicitations will be allowed on eBay.

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1. Sellers may only list items on behalf of a charity if the charity has provided advance written consent for the solicitation. To prove that you have obtained that consent, you must include a scanned copy of the consent in the listing.

2. Sellers may only solicit on behalf of recognized 501c3 or 501c4 charitable organizations.

Wow…seems I missed all the fun today. Glad its back up. I’ll refrain from posting any profanities, but to anyone that had even the slightest problem with the auction, you can go #@!% yourself and have a nice day 😀

Well it will actually it will end next thursday not wednesday. But no big deal, just gives it longer for exposure.
I wouldnt get 100% carried away, however, it could have been anyone not just a blogger, but rather someone doing a regular search on charity, and sees something they don’t recognise and dont understand this hot sauce thing. So probably reported it out of precaution that no one was pulling a fast one. That is more likely what happened, I can not believe one of us here would do something like that. Someone might be upset it is so expensive, however, people here have come to expect it from some of the collectibles in this hobby.

There are some very anal people with a lot of distruse and jealousy, that maybe there charity efforts in a month or year do not see what this one bottle would do in a week.
Hey, I’m not saying,, I’m just sayin’… one never knows what happened. eBay sure would not reveal it i am pretty sure of that. Damn they locked my paypal once, and it took me a month to unlock it, and NEVER did i get a reason from them.

Yeah I know there are a lot of people out there like that, not disagreeing(sp?) with you. I am just giving you a little guff………..And as for ebay, they are way to big to give us little guys any reason for anything they do…

That last big jump took me off guard as well! Kinda figured it would be more like ‘last guy standing’ rather than the usual sniping 🙂 Thank you, thank you whoever you were! So… which set is next, Nick??

Holy jumpin’ mother of pearl! $1,600 6 DAYS out??!! Unbelievable 🙂 How cool is that- they both used one of my pins for the topper. Talk about collectable! I bet no other manufacturer has put another manufacturers’ corporate logo on a bottle 🙂 I’ll never be able to repay this- either to Blair & Cajohn for doing it or for the folks shelling out the coin!

Just got back in from Chicago & checked the eBay. *UNBELIEVABLE*!! Stunned is about the only word I can come up with. I will be sending Nick some gifts (eventually) to be sent along to those who purchased these.

Way past my bedtime indeed 🙂 Kinda stoked though 😉 Chicago was only so-so as a show. Had fun though. Lots of people tried to tell me about this ‘other’ hot sauce guy they’d seen on TV- Kajun, KJohn or something like that. I’d just grin 🙂 There’s a few more people know what hot is now… after thinking they already knew 😉

I am sad 🙁 I have yet to see either of you on tv, I want to record it and take it to work with me and show off that I “know” celebrities 😀 maybe when I have some time off….ehhhh whatever that is, I can watch it all day.

I’m really going to be disappointed if I don’t hit 80k to 84k. If everything lines up just right, I don’t think 100k is out of reach. Hard to say with the little set back though. Spending the reamining time trying to get the non-hotsauce world fund raising going. Knocking on doors at businesses around here day after tomorrow.

Jim, You must have had one helluva family! I am not going to try and convince you your a hero, I’ll let whoever it is you hand the check to do that…. but if anyone ever asks me for an example, I’ll be a name dropper 😉

I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before the Travel chanel does something. If they can put the idiots from OCC(Ordinary Crying Children) on, then they can give the nice guys and girls that make hot sauce, they’re own show.

LOL, I would sure hope not. We shoud start bombarding their site, with suggestions. And of course it won’t include any of those 2…. We should have thought of this sooner, maybe they would have covered your climb.